Role-Playing in a Rape Crisis Center

Joseph Davenport; Judith Ann Davenport

doi:10.1093/hsw/5.2.65

Structure and Activities of Rape Crisis Centers in the Early 1980s

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/0011128785031002006 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 247-268 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Janet Gornick ◽

Martha R. Burt ◽

Karen J. Pittman

Keyword(s):

Human Services ◽

Community Education ◽

Financial Security ◽

Human Services Agencies ◽

Making Choices ◽

Rape Crisis Center ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Using Data ◽

The Many ◽

Rape Crisis

Using data from a nationally representative sample of 50 rape crisis centers, this article investigates the range of center types, services offered, staffing, involvement in community networks, funding and affiliation with criminal justice, counseling, and human services agencies. The evolution of the rape crisis center from the few prototype centers opened in 1972 to the many different models existing today is traced. The most important finding is that rape crisis centers today do not fall neatly into types. Rather, they have developed to fit their communities, making choices about whom to serve, where to locate a service, how to work with other agencies in the community, how, when, and where to do community education, and how to establish financial security. A decision about one such dimension does not necessarily predict what the decision will be about the other dimensions.

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“I’m sick of doing nothing:” how boredom shapes rape crisis center volunteers’ social movement participation

Social Movement Studies ◽

10.1080/14742837.2021.1928486 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Benjamin R. Weiss

Keyword(s):

Social Movement ◽

Rape Crisis Center ◽

Movement Participation ◽

Rape Crisis

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Assessing Receptivity to Empirically Supported Treatments in Rape Crisis Centers

Advances in Social Work ◽

10.18060/21338 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 611-629 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tonya Elaine Edmond ◽

Rachel Voth Schrag

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processing ◽

Service Sector ◽

Prolonged Exposure ◽

Cognitive Processing Therapy ◽

Dissemination And Implementation ◽

Trauma Symptoms ◽

Empirically Supported Treatments ◽

Empirically Supported ◽

Rape Crisis Center ◽

Rape Crisis

Survivors of sexual violence are at risk for PTSD, depression, and anxiety. There are several empirically supported treatments (EST) that are effective for addressing these trauma symptoms; however, uptake of these ESTs among Rape Crisis Center (RCC) counselors is low. This research project sought to determine counselors’ attitudes toward evidence-based practices (EBPs); their perceptions of the intervention characteristics of three specific ESTs: Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy; and differences in attitudes and perceptions based on agency setting (urban/rural) and counselor education. The Consolidated Framework for Advancing Implementation Science (CFIR) was used to construct a web-based survey to send to all RCCs in Texas (n=83) resulting in an overall agency response rate of 72% (n=60) and responses from 76 counselors. Counselors’ attitudes towards EBP and perspectives on specific ESTs suggest that dissemination and implementation efforts are needed within the RCC service sector to advance the uptake of CPT, EMDR and PE.

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Anti-Rape and Rape Crisis Center Movements

Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.4135/9781412963923.n24 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Frederika E. Schmitt ◽

Patricia Yancey Martin

Keyword(s):

Rape Crisis Center ◽

Rape Crisis

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Contested Discourses in Multidisciplinary Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260515585530 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 3-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Carrie A. Moylan ◽

Taryn Lindhorst ◽

Emiko A. Tajima

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Sexual Assault ◽

Medical Personnel ◽

Best Interests ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Team Members ◽

Rape Crisis Center ◽

Sexual Assault Response Teams ◽

Delivery Models ◽

Rape Crisis

This qualitative study explored how law enforcement officers, forensic nurses, and rape crisis advocates who are members of coordinated service delivery models such as Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) describe their process of engaging with one another and managing their differences in professional orientation, statutory obligations, and power. Using semi-structured interviews with 24 SART responders including rape crisis center advocates, law enforcement, and medical personnel, we examined the ways that SART members discursively construct one another’s role in the team and how this process points to unresolved tensions that can manifest in conflict. The findings in this study indicate that interdisciplinary power was negotiated through discursive processes of establishing and questioning the relative authority of team members to dictate the work of the team, expertise in terms of knowledge and experience working in the field of rape response, and the credibility of one another as qualified experts who reliably act in victims’ and society’s best interests. Implications of these findings for understanding and preventing the emergence of conflict in SARTs are discussed.

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